Saturday, June 29, 2013

A new hospice in Kanata, near Ottawa, due in 2016

The new McCurdy Hospice in Kanata is a former church and will be transformed into a 10-bed residential and day hospice. Roughly $1.7 million was fundraised to purchase the

Hospice can mean the type services delivered, or a hospice room, like this one,in a separate buildingin Heart Of Hastings Hospice.

location, but an additional $4 million will be needed to make the site fully serviceable.Lisa Sullivan is the executive director of Hospice Care Ottawa (formerly May Court Hospice), which oversees Ottawa’s three hospices.The McCurdy location will begin providing day services sometime in early 2014 and hopes to have beds ready by 2016.When completed there will be 19 total hospice beds in Ottawa. Read more

Universal Heatlhcare

"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay nor an offence for which people should be penalised. but a misfortune. The cost of which should be shared by the commmunity. " ~Aneuryn Bevan. Founder of the NHS

"I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside."

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